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   From: jsavard@excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid   
      
   The pawn is, in the words of Siegbert Tarrasch, "the soul of chess".   
      
   It is the piece in the front rank, of which eight are present, that   
   moves as follows:   
      
   it normally moves one step forwards;   
      
   its first move may be two steps forwards;   
      
   to capture, it can only move one step diagonally (replacing the man   
   that it captures);   
      
   if a pawn would be moving to a square where an opposing pawn could   
   capture it if it moved one step forwards, then, if it moves two steps   
   forwards instead, the opposing pawn can still - but only on the very   
   next move - capture it by moving into the square that first pawn   
   passed through.   
      
   John Savard   
   http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html   
      
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